The Portland daily press., 1887-01-20
The Swedish Diet Opened With a
Speech by the King.

police from Gweedora while on their way to
eyict tenants at Bloody Foreland, County
Donegal, today. found the roads blocked
with granite boulders and were obliged to
proceed on foot. The blowing Of horns and
ringing of bells brought together large
crowds of peasants, who threatened the
police with violence.
The police then made a strategic move
around the base of the mountain by the sea,
but scouts on the mountain top gave the
alarm, and the peasants, cheering, rushed
down the mountain side and blocked the pas
sage. A constable threatened the crowd
with his baton. This was a signal for a
shower of stones from the excited peasants.
A desperate fight ensued, in which five po-
licemen were badly wounded. A priest who
was present finally succeeded in calming the
people, and they allowed the police to pro-
coed. A tenant named Gallagher was
eylcted, but for various reasons the police
left the other tenats undisturbed. In many
cases they were unable to identify the cot
tages from which the occupants were to be
elected.
In the meantime the peasants carried Gal
lagher back to his house, kindled fire and
rreinstated him. The priest then persuaded
the people to allow the police to retire.
While the sheriff and his escort were on
their way home, masses of granite were
rolled down the mountald side, and the off
GERS narrowly escaped injury: While the
fighting was going on two vessels off Bloedy
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A large number of writs of ejectment have
been granted, but it is expected that no
further attempts will be made to enforce
them
PARIS, Jan. ia dispatch from Lyons
states that today two German spies We're ar
rested in that city for attempting to bribe a
French soldier into obtaining for them one
of the new repeating rifles with which the
government is about to equip the army.
BERLIN, Jan. 19.-The upper house of the
Prussian Diet has unanimously adopted an
address to the Emperor William expressing
the willingness of the Prussian people to
vote the means necessary for defending the
German empire.
LONDON, Jan. 19-The hall where last
nights accident occurred resembles a disor-
dered auction room. Broken furniture,
crushed toys, children's hats, broken bot
ties, orange peel, actors wigs, and shreds
OF clothes lie scattered over the floor. There
are many blood spots on the backs of chairs,
as well as ON the floor. Every here and
there CHASTITY knots cot hair are hanging to
the furniture Several escapes were made
through the windows, most of which are
badly smashed. Bodies were found at the
foot of the stone stairs leading to the gal
lery. Here terrible struggle took place
between the front of the crowd rushing from
the main floor and the leaders of the throng
which rushed down the gallery stairs The
dead lay mostly in two opposing rows, the
feet of each close to those of the other one
row of heads lying toward the gallery stair
way, the other toward the opposite side of
the hall. The faces Of the dead were dis
torted with agony Clothes were completely
torn from some of the bodies. A lit
tie girl identified as Eva Marks was found
lying at the bottom of pile of dead. Her
lower limbs We're bare and the upper part OF
her dress was torn to shreds. Isaac Levy, a
venerable Hebrew with long flowing beard
and hair, was among the dead. His wife's
body lay opposite. Beside her lay a little
boy whose knickerbockers and stockings
were torn to shreds. A man named Harris
hall, accompanied by his wife and family.
They all sat together. The play was melo-
drama called "The Spanish Gypsy Girl"
During the performance some boys, in order
to obtain better view of the stage, climbed
upon an exposed gas pipe fixed along the
wall. This strained the pipe and started
leak Goldberg placed his handkerchief
over the leak and some one shouted Turn
off the meterw This shout was raised sim
ultaneously with cry Of alarm from one of
the actors on the stage. Then the people in
the gallery rose and rushed headl0ng down
stairs. Goldberg's wife was torn away from
him and trampled to death. His six-year-
old son jumped upon the heads of thespacked
mass and escaped by running over them.
The managers are not to blame for the dis
aster. The passage from the hall to the
street entrance is ten feet wide where the
struggle occurred and the doors swing both
ways. There are several minor exits from
the gallery, three besides the stair case.
The disaster arose not from crowding of
the passage. but from frantic efforts of the
people in the gallery to force their way down
the crowded stairs. The men and women in
front were driven headlong into the passage
where they met the excited occupants of
the pit, and there was a hopeless block.
Foreign Notes.
The Danube river is covered with floating
ice from Pesth to Vienna, and is entirely
frozen over near Presburg, as Is also the
great Hungarian lake Oldenburg. In Vienna
the water supply has been reduced by over
half on account of cold weather.
Lord Randolph Churchill has written let
ter to Major Sanderson, Loyalist member of
Parliament for Armagh, in which he says
my attachment to the union and to the
Ulster Loyalists has undergone no diminu-
tion."
Mr.. Gladstone writes with regard to the
proposed provision for enabling Ireland to
take part in imperial concerns that such
If the time should arrive for framing a new
bill.
The KreuZ Zeitung says that the candida
ture of Prince George of Leuchtenberg for
the Bulgarian throne is approved every
where. The Bulgarian regency, it says,
must resign, leaving the election Of prince
to the Sobranje, in which event, Russia will
accept the ruler chosen.
Count Di Robilant, French minister of
foreign affairs, yesterday received the Bull
garian delegates. In his reply to their adj
dress he advised that the Bulgarians avoid
offering any provocation to Russia.
The Swedish Diet was opened yesterday
with speech by King Oscar. The budget
shows large surplus in the treasury.